Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) CURRENT MEMBERS
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Christine Anne Alexander, Prof.
English, Media, and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales
Research Interests: Romantic juvenilia, Romantic landscape and literature, the Brontes and Romanticism, Scott, Byron, John Martin, Visual Arts, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, editing
Email: C.Alexander@unsw.edu.au
Website: www.arts.unsw.edu.au/juvenilia
https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/scientia-professor-christine-anne-alexander
Ibrahim Alshetwi
Young An
Carol Anderson
Judy Barbour
Peta Beasley, Dr
English, The University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University
Research Interests: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century women writers; the historical novel, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Early-Australian women pioneers, and literary culture. Arthuriana; King Arthur, women in Arthur's court, nineteenth-century Arthurian writings.
Email: peta.beasley@uwa.edu.au
James Beattie, Dr
History, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research Interests: Romantic landscape art in nineteenth century New Zealand, India and Australia; Garden history and romanticism; German science and romanticism
Email: jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz
Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/people/james/
Gemma Betros, Dr
History, Australian National University
Research Interests: French Revolution, Napoleon, convents in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France; theatre in revolutionary France; Adélaïde de Souza
Email: gemma.betros@anu.edu.au
Website: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/people/dr-gemma-betros
Anne Brown
University of Auckland
Research Interests: New Zealand Colonial literature and colonial romanticism; comparative Australian and New Zealand colonial period writing.
Email: anne_brown71@hotmail.com
Michael Buhagiar
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Christopher Brennan and his mentors and milieu
Email: mjbuhagiar@iprimus.com.au
Alison Cardinale (nee Milne)
English, PLC Sydney
Research Interests: Romantic poetry; Coleridge’s poetry, Neo Platonism and the Kantian notion of the will
Email: acardinale@ravenswood.edu.au
Website: acardinale@plc.nsw.edu.au
Don Carter
Education, Board of Studies, NSW
Research Interests: Romantic thinking and approaches to education, childhood, individual experience and the creative imagination; the legacy and ramifications of Romantic thinking in current school-based curriculum; Wordsworth; Coleridge; Keats
Email: don.carter@bos.nsw.edu.au
Jennifer Carter
Susan Carson
Will Christie, Prof.
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Romantic periodicals, pamphlets, and public lectures; eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scottish intellectual, scientific, and literary culture; Francis Jeffrey’s Edinburgh Review; Wordsworth; Scott; Coleridge; Austen; Byron
Email: william.christie@sydney.edu.au
Website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/english/staff/profiles/christie_w.shtml
Deirdre Coleman, Prof.
English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne
Research Interests: Wordsworth; Coleridge; Keats; Austen; women’s writing; abolitionism, Romantic natural history, human-animal studies, colonization.
Email: colemand@unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/english/staff/deirdre-coleman
Christopher Conti, Dr
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Romantic irony and literary modernism, John Barth and postmodernism, the metaphysical novel, German Romanticism
Email: tedconti@hotmail.com
Amelia Dale
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: The eighteenth-century novel; eighteenth-century perceptions of novel readers; eighteenth-century mind/body/soul relations; metafictional narratives; narrative theory; Sterne
Email: amelia.k.dale@gmail.com
Angela Dunstan, Dr
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century visual culture; history of lecturing in the nineteenth-century; nineteenth-century literary societies; Francis Jeffrey's Edinburgh Review; Victorian biographies of Romantic figures; the Pre-Raphaelite circle; nineteenth-century sculpture; the Brontës; Victorian celebrity and empire; literary afterlives.
Email: angela.dunstan@sydney.edu.au
Michael Falk
Tom Ford
Adam Genziuk
Melinda Graefe
Elias Greig
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Wordsworth, his poetics and politics; Paine, Burke, and the pamphlet wars; treason trials of the 1790s; William Godwin; William Hazlitt; Charles Lamb; Criticism in the Romantic Period; representations of poverty; 18th century poetry, sentimentality, and the picturesque
Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com
Gerard Goggin
Alexandra Hankinson
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Coleridge; Dorothy Wordsworth; Austen; Romantic natural history and human-animal studies; observational technologies, perception, field observation, and representation
Email: alex_hankinson@yahoo.com.au
Jocelyn Harris, Prof.
English, University of Otago
Research Interests: Satire, celebrity and politics in Jane Austen
Email: jocelyn.harris@otago.ac.nz
Maureen Harkin, Prof.
English, Reed College
Research interests: Adam Smith and eighteenth-century intellectual and literary culture; novel
1760-1830, especially the sentimental novel; Henry Mackenzie; writings on
economics and material culture; portraiture and visual culture. Email: harkinm@reed.edu
Alexis Harley
Julie Hartigan
Meegan Hasted
English, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Romantic literature and culture, Romantic science, the Gothic, John Keats
Email: meeganhasted@hotmail.com
Lesley Hawkes
Nikki Hessell, Dr
English, Victoria University of Wellington
Research Interests: print culture and journalism, colonisation and travel
Email: Nikki.hessell@vuw.ac.nz
Website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/staff/nikki-hessell.aspx
Audra Himes
Ingrid Horrocks
Judith Johnston, Prof.
English, University of Sydney (honorary associate; ex-University of Western Australia)
Research Interests: Victorian literature, including women’s writing, travel writing, and translation; nineteenth-century Australian literature; Romantic writing and the Australian landscape
Email: judith.johnston@sydney.edu.au
Claire Knowles, Dr
English, La Trobe University
Research Interests: women writers in the 18th and 19th centuries (in
particular, Letitia Landon, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Ann
Yearsley), gothic fiction, Romantic popular culture and celebrity culture
Email: c.knowles@latrobe.edu.au
Wesbite: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=CKnowles
Richard Lansdown, Assoc. Prof.
English, James Cook University
Research Interests: Byron, Austen, Wordsworth, Western Ideas of the Pacific
Email: richard.lansdown@jcu.edu.au
Website: http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_016487.html
Jacqueline Manuel, Assoc. Prof.
Education, The University of Sydney
Research Interests: English education; literature in secondary English; English curriculum history
Email Address: jackie.manuel@sydney.edu.au
Website: http://fdp.edsw.usyd.edu.au/users/jmanuel
Glen McGillivray, Dr
Performance Studies, University of Sydney
Research Interests: theories of emotion in 18th C performance practices; theatrical metaphor and the picturesque
Email: glen.mcgillivray@sydney.edu.au
Website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/performance/staff/profiles/mcgillivray.shtml
Thomas McLean, Dr
English, University of Otago
Research Interests: Romanticism and nationalism; the historical novel; biography; 18th and 19th century manuscripts and letters; Eastern Europe; Joanna Baillie; Jane Porter
Email: thomas.mclean@otago.ac.nz
Website: http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/mclean.html
Shelley Meagher
Peter Moore
English, De La Salle College, Cronulla
Research Interests: S. T. Coleridge, especially the Coleridgean symbol
Email Address: wonnyview@yahoo.com
Olivia Murphy
Lisa O'Connell, Dr
English, University of Queensland
Research interests: eighteenth-century novel; sentimentalism; theories of enlightenment and secularisation; the English marriage plot; settler colonial writing (Australia and New Zealand); early global literatures
Email: l.oconnell@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/emsah/index.html?page=17884&pid=20547
Katrina O'Loughlin
Peter Otto, Prof.
English and Theatre, University of Melbourne
Research Interests: William Blake; Gothic fictions; popular entertainments; literature and technology; histories of the imagination; romanticism and modernity; romanticism and contemporary culture; virtual reality; word and image; literary theory
Email: peterjo@unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/english/staff/peter-otto
Eric Parisot, Dr
English, Media Studies and Art History (University of Queensland)
Research Interests: British eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, especially: graveyard poetry; the literary mid-eighteenth century; Gothic fiction; melancholy and sensibility; depictions of self-destruction and suicide; the Wandering Jew.
Email: e.parisot@uq.edu.au
Barbara Pauk, Dr
English, University of Western Australia
Research Interests: Cross-cultural exchanges between France and England; Women writers; Representations of women's nature and roles; Helen Maria Williams; Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Email: barbara.pauk@uwa.edu.au
Website: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/contact/profiles (see Pauk, Barbara)
Neil Ramsey, Dr
English, University of Western Sydney
Research Interests: Romanticism and war, war literature, sentimentalism, Romantic era life writing and travel writing, Wordsworth, Byron
Email: n.ramsey@uws.edu.au
Jennifer Ridden
Ben P. Robertson
English, Troy University
Research Interests: Romanticism; Elizabeth Inchbald; Romantic prose; women writers
Email: bprobertson@troy.edu
Malini Roy, Dr
English, Singapore Institute of Management
Research Interests: Romanticism; childhood studies; history of the book; Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin; Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; early paediatric literature; children's literature; contemporary graphic novels and manga
Email: roym26@gmail.com
Rose Sneyd
Andrew Smith, Dr
English Department, University of Melbourne
Research Interests: John Clare; Robert Bloomfield; labouring-class poetry; landscape art and literature; the picturesque; travel writing; ruins
Email: smitha@unimelb.edu.au
Mandy Swann
Heidi Thomson
Graham Tulloch, Prof.
English and the Humanities, Flinders University
Research Interests: Walter Scott; James Hogg; Robert Louis Stevenson; Scottish Romanticism; Editing Scottish Literary Texts; Scottish Writers in Australia; The Scots Language in Written Texts
Email: graham.tulloch@flinders.edu.au
Website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/graham.tulloch
Jennifer Wells
Rowland Weston, Dr
History, University of Waikato
Research Interests: Godwin, historiography of the Romantic period
Email: rweston@waikato.ac.nz
Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/people/rowland/
Bob White, Prof.
English, University of Western Australia
Research Interests: Shakespeare, Romanticism, Keats, Hazlitt, Pacifism and Literature
Email: bobwhite@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/bob.white
Geordie Williamson